Drilling Hydraulics Complete Guide

Why It Is Important To Understand Drilling Hydraulics? The drilling hydraulics system serves many purposes in the well. Since it is centered around the drilling mud circulating system, the purposes of mud and hydraulics are often common to each other. The hydraulics system has many effects on the well. Therefore, the reasons for giving attention …

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Simple Tips For Rig Acceptance

Points to be checked before rig acceptance 1. Weld 30” riser (weld two x 3” valves on the bottom of the conductor casing to be used to take a return to the caller if required, check the conductor for any junk inside before welding. 2. Install the cellar jet and function test it (fill the …

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REAMING PRACTICES & STUCK PIPE PROBLEMS

Reaming & Backreaming Guidelines Reaming is a high risk operation that accounts for a large proportion of stuck pipe incidents.  If reaming operations are conducted too fast, solids from wash-outs and cavings are introduced into the circulating system faster than the hole is being cleaned.  This results in a drilling pack off.  Do not assume …

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Mechanical Stuck Pipe Full Guide

Mechanical Pipe sticking is when any part from the Drill String such as Drill Pipe, Heavy Weight Drill Pipe HWDP, Drill Collars, Drilling Bit, or Bottom Hole Assembly BHA is stuck in a borehole due to mechanical reasons such as cutting accumulation, junk, extensive cement cutting and changing drill String geometry and cannot be recovered from …

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Ledges & Doglegs In Drilling Risks & Stuck Mitigation

Ledge in Drilling: The wellbore passes through the rock of varying types and ledges develop at the interfaces between layers of differing hardness. Closely spaced ledges decrease the effective diameter of the hole and produce a “shouldered” hole surface. Any type of casing string requires a smooth, more in-gauge hole diameter for free passage and …

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Cementing Stuck Types Causes & Consequences

Stuck Pipe In Cement Blocks Cuttings The Drill String becomes jammed in the hole by cement blocks cuttings falling around the Drill String. This mechanism occurs typically when : Hard cement becomes unstable around the casing shoe, open-hole squeeze plugs, and Sidetrack plugs. Preventative Action Rig Site Indications For Stuck-In Cement Cuttings Freeing Cement Blocks …

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Collapsed Casing Risks, Indications & Mitigation

Collapsed Casing / Tubing Stuck Pipe Casing collapses either if pressure conditions exceed its original rated collapse pressure or the original collapse pressure rating of the casing is no longer valid due to casing wear and/or corrosion. Casing wear due to friction or corrosion decreases the effective collapse pressure rating of the casing, through decreased …

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Drilling Junk In Wellbore Risks and Mitigation Measures

We mean by drilling junk any material, any tool or any piece of equipment may fall down from surface of from downhole Bottom Hole Assembly BHA and equipment. The junk may jams the Drill String and produce easily a good stuck. This type of stuck pipe usually occurs: Preventative Action For Wellbore Junk In Drilling …

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Undergauge Hole Problems In Oil And Gas

Undergauge Hole in drilling is a phenomenon that means that the drilled hole diameter is less than the used Drilling Bit diameter. It always happens after the Drilling Bit, and the stabilizer gauges get worn while drilling abrasive rock, so the following section using the same Drilling Bit will produce a less diameter hole or …

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Key Seating Causes, Mitigation & Freeing

We can define Key seating term in drilling as a groove in the hole side made by the Drill Pipe rotating against the borehole wall at the same point and wearing a groove or key seat in the wall. During tripping pipe out of the hole, the Bottom Hole Assembly BHA, Drill Collar, Stabilizer, Mud …

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